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Now we come to what I consider the “fun” part of this article: Granville Woods’ inventions and patents. There are some who say that the number of patents Woods obtained is at least 60, may be even ...

Last week I began this discussion of Civil War infrastructure in Arkansas with a look at roads, railroads, bridges, and manufacturing of war material. The story continues with a look at telegraphy, ...

In my past two Cannonball blog posts, we learned about railroad ticket agent Joseph Leib, conductor John Eckert, and telegrapher Daniel Trone and their efforts to escape from Hanover and Hanover ...

WHY Mr. Beechy should wish to depart from ordinary usage and call his book electro-telegraphy rather than electric telegraphy, we have no idea. The assumption of an eccentric title for a scientific ...

A VERY large number of books on radio telegraphy and radio telephony have recently been published. Many are of little use to the general scientific reader because they are too elementary; others fail ...

The story continues with a look at telegraphy, gristmills, and mining. To fully grasp the significance of the telegraph, one must realize that before its invention communication was limited to the ...

Father wouldn`t give me permission to go into the services but my mother, who was of an understanding disposition, signed the form for the Wrens without his knowing; he gave in gracefully when my ...